[Avodah] minhag

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<But not every communal practice is a minhag. So yes, minhagim are
inherently dynamic. But there are limits on valid ways for them to
change. Just as there is a minhag shtus when it comes to the creation of
a new minhag, there is when it comes to repealing it. >>

What is the difference between a community practice and minhag?
Is a public fast on Sivan 20 a community practice or a minhag?

Talking with a friend recently he noted that in the askenazi kDL in EY
kitniyot is
slowly being eliminated. A number of major rabbis now pasken that
lechatchila
kitniyot is batel be-rov.
http://www.vosizneias.com/80925/2011/04/14/efrat-rabbi-eases-restrictions-of-kitniyot-for-ashkenazi-jews/
Others allow various new kitniyot oils like canola oil
see for example http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=1400 .
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/rabbanut-says-canola-oil-is-not-kitniyot.html

Most Israeli Ashkenazi shuls say ein kelokenu every day. A number of these
shuls say hoshana immediately after Hallel during chol hamoed succot.

<<But the nature of the modern world is such that rarely move to places
that have a single minhag hamaqom. And so minhag avos plays a greater
role in practice that at other times in history. >>

I would guess that the minhag of the shul and especially the yeshiva has an
equal impact to family customs. Many (Most?) ashkenazim (at least in EY)
hold the first 33 days of the Omer for not having weddings. A running
battle with the chief rabbi of my town (a sefardi) who refuses to allow
ashkenazim to hold a wedding after lag ba-omer because its against the
Rama. Explaining that it is not my mionhag gets you nowhere - he decides
what your minhag should be.

-- 
Eli Turkel
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